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This is a really fun story. Obviously, still, fuck this guy, but it's a great demonstration that the Democratic base in MA rejected his shit so thoroughly he's desperate to run away from the reputation caused by his own comments.

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Teen Vogue has shown that you can do courageous, accountability political journalism *and* get huge engagement while doing so. And they've just decided to throw that all away. This is an unbelievably grim day for journalism.

Trying and failing to fathom the scope of violence that the loss of basic food assistance and the catastrophic spikes in healthcare costs will cause in the US.

am i full of regrets from wasting my one precious life (the end of which is approaching by the day, faster and faster and faster) or did i go to bed a little later than usual and it's cloudy outside. impossible to say. probably the first thing

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

I love how one of the first things a guy does when he realizes he's unappealing to women is to get jacked. Congrats, now you're unappealing and scary.

I actually love hearing other languages. There are so many of them and they’re beautiful.

Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

I think having an SS tattoo should be disqualifying for public office actually

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

when some random business AI is writing dynamic interfaces and visualizations for you, are you gonna wanna run that code locally? the web is just as important as ever

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

A cool thing about the trans lesbian thing is you'll have done so much work for the whole trans aspect that you'll forget when you're walking down the street hand in hand with your girlfriend that for a lot of people the lesbian part is still a big deal.

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence.

1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible.

All violence has the potential to entrench itself.

🚨 URGENT U.S. TRAVEL ALERT 🚨
Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)

However, for domestic air travel, they CAN still use their 'X' passport as a valid ID. The TSA accepts U.S. passports for ID, and as we covered, the TSA's domestic systems accommodate the 'X' marker. Your passport is still a valid ID (TSA), just not for international flight manifests (CBP). (15/17)

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world.

Gift link.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

A hanging banner spelling out “PLEASE LEAVE BY 8”

Went to a party hosted by an absolute icon

I always thought when it was time for a mid career change of profession there would be professions left.

the strong female characters that inspire me!! its mothra and the t rex from OG jurassic park and the queen alien xenomorph from aliens! GOOD FRIENDS! ROLE MODELS! ICONS!!! IF YOU CAN DREAM IT YOU CAN DO IT!!!

it's important to have role models!!!

A lot of the commentators who deride Bluesky as a smaller or less active platform than X are totally clueless about how power on the internet works, which is also how they lost it to the alt-right. Internet culture fractured a while back. Niche spaces are actually the way to grow

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

For anyone who knows anything about this disease, this is amazing news, and it should make the value of science apparent to everyone. It will bring real hope into lives where there was none. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧪

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"